CMPE 222 Digital VLSI Design
Kevin Karplus
A non-project course on digital cMOS design, emphasizing
hierarchical design using various design tools, including verilog,
magic, and rsim. Although the course can be taken by itself, it is
intended primarily to prepare students to take CMPE 223. Offered
alternate years (next: Fall 1995).
Syllabus for Fall 1995, in Postscript format.
Homework 3 (layout from stick diagrams), Fall 1995.
CMPE 223 Digital VLSI Design Project
This course has no lectures---just weekly group meetings between
the instructor and the project teams. The teams design, simulate,
and lay out complex digital systems for fabrication in cMOS through MOSIS.
It is recommended that students sign up for an independent study in
addition to 223, as the workload is approximately twice that of a
normal graduate course. Offered alternate years (next: Winter 1996).
Newsgroup
There is a newsgroup (
ucsc.class.cmpe222) for the class (available only within
UCSC). For posting to the newsgroup, it is generally better to be
working from a UNIX machine, so that proper mailing addresses are
generated.
MOSIS
Our chips are fabricated by the silicon broker
MOSIS